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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






2. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






3. Sources of fats






4. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






5. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






6. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






7. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






8. What is the function of vitamin C?






9. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






10. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






11. When does BMR decrease?






12. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






13. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






14. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






15. What function is vitamin A?






16. What foods have high quality protein?






17. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






18. What are healthy sources of fats?






19. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






20. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






21. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






22. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






23. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






24. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






25. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






26. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






27. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






28. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






29. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






30. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






31. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






33. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






34. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






35. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






36. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






37. Name six sources of grains






38. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






39. What type of people need extra protein?






40. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






41. Fats can lead to some medical problems






42. When does BMR increase?






43. The higher the BMR a client has --






44. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






45. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






46. Where can you get more vitamin D?






47. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






48. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






49. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






50. How much meat/beans should be eaten?